The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-03-11
GENERAL NEWS.


Mr.. Cleveland gave the river and
harbor bill a "pocket-veto."
Secretary Manning will next week
SAIL Tor Europe, accompanied by Treas
urer Jordan.
the redemption of trade dollars at all
the sub-treasuries.
Surveyors for the Wisconsin Central
road have laid out a route from Port
age to Madison.
Louis will compel the closing of foun-
dries employing 1900 men.
A strong vein OF natural gas was
developed Monday at Alexandria,
Ind, at depth of $40 feet.
Prof. Falb, an Austrian meteorolo-
| gist, thinks there is no further danger
from earthquakes in the Riviera.
The Austrian war office has been
! making contracts for hay at twice the
price paid by private purchasers.
The recent earthquake at Nice
caused such panic that hOtel-keepers
are selling out at great sacrifice.
All freight traffic on the Baltimore g.
Ohio road at Pittsburg has been sus-
pended by the brakemen's strike.
Prof. Won Treitschke. Prussian his
Photographer, in lecture indicated
that he thought war was inevitable.
John White, a colored preacher of
Lonoke, Ark, 102 years of age. was
married to q woman of 20, last Sun
day.
Charles j. Peterson, a Philadelphia
publisher, and Lieutenant Colonel II.
n. Scott, of Washington, died Satur-
day.
Cards are out for the wedding of
John A. Logan, Jr., and Miss An
drews, at Youngstown, o., on March
%.
An appropriation of 5000 has been
made by the legislature of Wisconsin
for a monument on the battlefield of
Gettysburg.
At the military post near Detroit,
Bandmaster Berninger killed himself
with poison, after serving twenty years
in the army.
The only sword mandatory in the
United States is hereafter to import
blades from Germany, because of the
lessened cost.
Nearly all the Illinois postmasters
OH whose nominations the senate fail
ed to act were reappointed by the presi-
dent Monday.
The banking capital of Canada is
SCI $50 1856. The returns for January
show an increase Of S., OO0, 900 in depos-
its by the people.
On the farm of Scott Galloway. near
LigOnier, Indiana, customs officers
seized $4,000 worth of horses snug
gled from Canada.
President Grevy intends to send q
special envoy to Berlin to congratulate
Emperor William on the approach of
his ninetieth birthday.
A fire at Davenport, Ia, damaged
the Gdzettc block to the amount of $40,-
600. and inflicted a similar loss upon
the newspaper company.
The governor of Sonora has ordered
the capture and surrender of L.euten-
ant Guitterez to the American authori-
ties at Nogales, Arizona.
The roofs and galleries of a colliery
near Mons, Belgium. were shattered
by an explosion Saturday. 1t is stated
that IA miners were suffocated.
The Milwaukee newspapers have
filled their compoSing-rOomS with in
dependent men, and now positively
refuse to re-employ the strikers.
The st. Paul road has let a contract
for an extension of its track from
Merrill to Tomahawk lake, fifty-three
miles on the way to Lake Superior.
The Senate of Michigan has passed a
bill to require civil license for mar
riages, intending to shut out clippers
from the borders of Indiana and Ohio.
The ameer of Afghanistan has warn
ed his subjects to prepare for holy
war. All boys between 10 and Is years
are being prepared for military service.
The death-roll of the Forty-ninth
Congress was an extraordinary one,
comprising the unprecedented number
of thirteen names i'll the House and
Senate.
The anti-polygamy bill became a
law without the presidents signature,
ten days having elapsed after its pass
age before the final adjournment of
Congress.
Col. Hunter, ex-president of the Ma
tional Cattle Growers Association.
cold on the ranges are greatly exag-
gerated.
The Democratic members of the
interstate commerce commission are
likely to be w. II. Morrison, of Illinois,
Grant, of Colorado, and Bragg, of
Alabama.
1t is definitly known that the presi-
dent will sign neither the River and
HarbOr bill nor any other measure on
which he failed to act before congress
adjourned.
Fifty counties of Kentucky were re-
presented in the prohibition conven-
ton at Louisville Thursday. Judge
FOntaine j. Fox was nominated for
governor.
A vagrant lying in jail at Augusta,
KY, was sold to the highest bidder for
seventy-five days. He was knocked
down for 81 to the jailer, who turned
him loose.
The nominations of Captain Greedy to
be brigadier general and James M.
Trotter to be recorder of deeds for the
District Of Columbia were confirmed
by the senate.
Edward Breitung, one of the pio-
neers of the upper peninsula of Michi-
gan, who died in Georgia on Thursday
night, left $5,OOO,OOO or more to his
widow and son.
The license tax imposed in Tonnes